The College Football Playoff Championship will tower over programming this week. Also on tap are Betty White's birthday, the return of "Saturday Night Live" and the announcement of Oscar nominations.
Here's hoping that Oregon and Ohio State...

Thanks to a creative trading card reveal, we can finally put names with the now famous faces of the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer.
Director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed the names names of the characters...

The Oscar nominations will be revealed in two parts Thursday morning. This will allow all the nominees to be announced for the first time.
At 8:30 a.m. ET, directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams present the nominees in 11 categories: animated...

"Westworld," the 1973 Michael Crichton film about a malfunctioning robot that devastates an amusement park, has inspired an HBO series with Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris.
The cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden,...

For two years, Mark Hamill kept a secret he learned in Orlando.
"Star Wars" mastermind George Lucas had invited Hamill and Carrie Fisher to lunch and asked them to reprise their roles of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in a planned...

Ever imagined yourself in a Star Wars film? Here's your chance to make that dream a reality while making a difference in the world.
J.J. Abrams, the director of the "Star Wars: Episode VII," announced Wednesday that fans will have the...

After taking a hiatus for several weeks from filming, J.J. Abrams has resumed production on "Star Wars: Episode VII" in the U.K. The break was taken for holiday in August when many Europeans take time off, and also allowed for Harrison Ford to...

It looks as though the Millennium Falcon will have some company in the "Star Wars: Episode VII" hangar.
In a new video from the London set of the space-opera sequel (you can watch above), director J.J. Abrams provides a glimpse of a weathered...

NBC is using the Summer Olympics to promote its new fall series furiously. The network offers a nearly three-minute preview Monday of its best new drama, “Revolution.” Look for the clips between 10:45 and 11:15 p.m. before the women's gymnastics un

The 2012-13 season doesn't officially start until next week. But the series premieres and returns pick up this week. Several reality series name their winners, and “Saturday Night Live” jumps to prime time. The highlights: 1. NBC hopes to turn on t

These days, an enterprising movie fan who likes to open his or her Christmas presents on December 22 can find out much of what’s interesting about a movie long before opening day. And J.J. Abrams, of “Lost,” “Star Trek” and “Cloverfield” fame, says that’s a sh

“Super 8,” as you know if you watch the pre-sale ticketing sites like Fandango and movietickets.com, is opening Thursday. Paramount is using Twitter to promote screenings earlier than those midnight shows (see details below the page-break). Review

It wasn't a sequel, wasn't a comic book, had nobody dressed in tights and a cape, no Mike Tyson singing “One Night in Bangkok.” Or whatever it was he was butchering. Not presold. J.J. Abrams guarded “Super 8's” secrets, and the studio s

Here's the first shot of Mr. Urban as Mr. “I AM the law.!” I don't know. You'd think he'd find something more interesting than cheese to fill his time between “Star Treks.” “Priest,” now this? Is the exchange rate in New Zea

“Everything Must Go” — A “great” Will Ferrell comedy? Timely, about a guy who has just lost his job, his wife and his place to live. A bleak Raymond Carver story about an alcoholic that works because it cast the shockingly empathe